Revertendo relações e produzindo contextos: colaborações entre antropologias, museus e povos indígenas

Abstract

This research seeks to reflect on the relationships, collaborations and reversals between anthropology, ethnographic museums and indigenous peoples. If in the 19th century anthropology was born within ethnographic museums and built categories of intelligibility of difference by taking objects as a metonym of the Other, we are currently witnessing indigenous peoples appropriating museums and formulating policies of self-representation of their own culture. The institutions of modern science and colonialism are being recontextualized in terms of local indigenous politics. Observing the collaborative process between the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora and the Povo Apyãwa (Tapirapé), from 2020 to 2022, with the purpose to elaborate a museum in its central village, I try to rethink cultural statements produced by indigenous peoples and anthropological work itself. Are indigenous museums a form of native anthropology? How do the collaborative processes of these indigenous museological experiments transform anthropological work itself ?